Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'

Leoz withdrew his fist, shrugged at the foreman crushed into a pulp before him, and said regretfully:

"Sorry, I thought you were pretty strong..."

Unable to sense any aura of a Pathway on the opponent, he instinctively thought it was a strong presence.

Turned out to be so weak, he had just swung his fist, and the force of the punch had shattered the foe.

The blood and flesh were ruthlessly dried and carbonized by the wind pressure, akin to a failed steak, emitting an unpleasant burnt stench mixed with a rusty smell, spreading throughout the factory in no time.

The workers stared at him dazedly until Leoz lifted his head, his deep blue eyes scanning the crowd apologetically, immediately causing an uproar.

"He's killed someone, run!"

"Monster, this is definitely a monster!"

"We won't call the police, please spare us..."

Without releasing even a hint of pressure, these workers immediately ran out of sight, their hearts filled with despair, not even considering alerting the authorities.

"Look at you, you scared them."

Lanan tiptoed over beside him, hands behind her back, leaning slightly to his side as she glanced at the fleeing workers, even losing their shoes, and then teased Leoz:

"Great, we were here to gather clues, but now everyone's gone, this task might be interrupted."

"Interrupted? I don't think so."

Leoz turned his head, looking towards the bloody lathe next to him:

"Just as we came over here, that foreman hacked a worker's leg with an axe, as if deliberately mimicking a novel scene — how could it be so coincidental, perhaps this is the clue to trigger the task."

Lanan tilted her head:

"Eh? You rarely play games, yet you speak so knowledgeably."

"Among all writers, the inexperienced young males and young women often depict love most delicately and sincerely. In their writings, love is always beautiful and pure — whereas married authors describe love as mundane domestic trivia lacking novelty and fun."

Yueyue's eyes brightened, she clapped her hands in realization, asserting:

"Got it, you're an inexperienced boy."

Thunk!

Leoz flicked her forehead slightly, Yueyue immediately covered her head, complaining:

"Hey! Why hit me? Being violent to girls might prevent you getting a girlfriend, hmph!"

"I'm not as young as I look." Leoz said, "My kids can form fleets already, no need for you, little girl, to worry."

"Liar." Yueyue murmured: "Given your speaking skills, what girl would be interested in you."

"Strictly speaking, the one interested in me isn't a girl, isn't even human..."

"Oh, I understand, you're the type who considers the two-dimensional people from virtual worlds as wives, a geek, right!"

Thunk!

"Hey! Ugh—why hit me again, True General, can't handle defeat?"

"I'm hitting you to stop you from wasting my time."

Leoz said, moving around to the side of the lathe, squatting down to look at the child lying in the pool of blood with a leg bleeding profusely.

"Hmm... still a child laborer."

Leoz rubbed his chin, observing the child.

"Light brown short hair, slender bones, long-term malnutrition, yet quite tall, at least 1.7 meters, delicate features, doesn't look like a boy, but not yet mature, so a boy with feminine looks is quite normal... There's a work badge here? They actually gave child labor work badges?"

Leoz said as he reached out to pull off the badge hanging around the child's neck, the writing almost resembling English, basically recognizable:

Affiliation: Lisbon Machinery Factory

Position: Loading Assistant

Name: Rednaya Gin

Gender: ——

Age: 17 years old.

"Hm?"

Leoz glanced at the child in the pool of blood, freckles still dotting their face, the skin was weathered but still retained a youthful innocence.

Doesn't look like a seventeen-year-old.

The gender wasn't filled in either, the system can't be utilized now.

"Should we take the child to the hospital?" Lanan walked over, folding her skirt, bending down to look at the child on the ground: "Hmm, she looks like she'll be quite a beauty."

"Really? I feel like he's a boy." Leoz remarked casually.

"Her name is Rednaya, most probably a girl though." Lanan said: "Then again it could be 'Reddniya' — anyway, beauty is not determined by gender."

The two chatted idly for a couple of sentences, then the Rednaya on the ground began to struggle, 'he' started to breathe heavily, lips quickly turning pale, even in such cold weather, the wound didn't stop bleeding.

"Taking him to the hospital probably won't be fast enough." Leoz activated his Qi Energy, slowly transferring it remotely, and channeling it to the thin body in the pool of blood.

Lanan rolled her eyes, scolding:

"You did it on purpose, didn't you? Initially targeting this child as a possible clue, keeping it handy as a reason?"

"Not really, I don't need such hassle."

Leoz used his Qi Energy to stop the ruptured blood vessels and nerve pathways, saying lightly:

"I just forgot, mortals bleed to death."

"I see."

Lanan clasped their hands behind their back and looked at the boy called Rednaya, suddenly their eyes lit up:

"Hey, Truly, look, she's starting to move..."

"Is she?"

Leoz paid no heed and bowed his head to continue healing.

"Hmm... uh..."

Rednaya's nostrils flared as their body trembled incessantly, unable to withstand the surrounding cold, 'his' eyelids began to struggle like a bird trapped in a net, fighting desperately, with densely packed eyelashes slowly lifting and falling.

The light fell into 'his' eyes, the pale gray pupils focusing, faintly reflecting Leoz's busy silhouette.

'He' pursed 'his' cracked lips, slightly opened 'his' mouth, and emitted a sound almost like a kitten's whimper:

"Save..."

"Truly, he's speaking..."

The voice was far from 'him'.

"Don't be afraid."

Lanan lowered their head, lifted a hand to 'his' forehead, and said caringly:

"You're going to be okay, trust me..."

'He' opened 'his' mouth, and it seemed as if 'his' ears were filled with the sea, the ocean sweeping up sand and swallowing 'him' whole, submerging 'him' in the deepest depths.

The seabed was as emerald green as jade.

"Hmm—what's going on here?"

The seabed had a stream of White Sand Bay flowing.

"Truly, the whole world is collapsing!"

The undersea currents could flow forward in time, or reverse-course to the past.

"System—found it, what's going on? Geographical identifier, we're actually in Border Abyss—"

Return to the deepest part of the emerald sea.

Then, consciousness fell like a snapped string, instantly dropping to the bottom, plunging into endless darkness.

....................

Welcome to Border Abyss, dear one.

I know you still have many questions, but for now, don't rush, just listen to my slow story.

Now, to help you quickly understand the Starry Abyss, I'm going to introduce the environmental characteristics of Border Abyss.

When talking about the Starry Abyss, one cannot avoid discussing Narrative Civilization.

After the War Beyond the Abyss, Narrative Civilization took the stage.

Narrative is the outcome of each layer of the Starry Abyss deciding to become independent and strong, in opposition to the exploitation and oppression by the Primordial Abyss Will. By granting certain highly developed civilizations that have mastered the Inherent Time Domain certain privileges, allowing them to lead other civilizations like a locomotive, eventually unifying manpower, materials, Pathway deities, and other resources of the entire layer of the Starry Abyss to stand on equal footing with the Primordial Abyss Will.

In this regard, the Void Narrative of Zhou Yuan performed the best, but they are on a lower level, so we won't talk about them for now.

First, let's start with the Narrative Civilization of Border Abyss.

[Border Abyss]:

7th Narrative—"Soul Hometown"

"The souls of the deceased will all come here."

Hometown is an enlightened theocratic civilization with the undead as the main ethnic group, consisting of a council formed by allocating seats according to the factional beliefs of all undead, it's a highly developed idealistic civilization.

Although they have a relatively friendly attitude externally, the harsh environment is not suitable for biological survival.

8th Narrative—"Endless Garden"

"Here connects to any future."

The Garden is not a civilization in the strict sense, in fact, they belong to typical 'spatial-time refugees', with people hailing from wanderers, transmigrators, and refugees across every spacetime dimension, here, they universally adopt a committee self-governing organization and registered militia system.

Although the Garden comprises refugees, due to the cultural clashes from various cosmic dimensional spacetimes, an unprecedented cultural diversity has been shaped, making it exceptionally open, with a happiness index far higher than it appears.

9th Narrative—"Collapsed Homeland"

"Here connects to any past segment."

Contrary to the Garden, the citizens of Homeland come from civilizations destroyed by other Narrative Civilizations in the past, they are all losers but have reached a consensus here, announcing the establishment of a highly ordered and disciplined legal commune.

Homeland gathered a large amount of high-precision knowledge talents, but due to the population absorption characteristic of Narrative Civilizations, their population is exceedingly small, even after accumulating for thousands of years, only reaching two hundred million people.

Homeland highly worships order and the rule of law, following Rationality and empiricism, excelling at utilizing their advantages to traverse past years and extract critical technological data.

10th Narrative—"Crimson Blood Alliance"

"Here is now, and now persists forever."

Unlike the above three, the Alliance is a military Empire, its Narrative isn't particularly progressive, but extremely regressive evolutionism—wherein various species compete with each other, enhancing their racial rankings to obtain a higher proportion of resource allocation.

Despite the near-barbaric behavior and ideology, the Alliance doesn't exclude the three Narratives of the same Starry Abyss, instead actively promoting the existence of the Union, and using its mighty iron fist, striking down every scoundrel attempting to fracture the Narrative Union.

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Swoosh.

The book gently closed, the woman seated on the jade throne lifted her head, revealing green eyes, gazing at the two individuals standing in front of her:

"The situation has been clearly explained to you, any further questions?"